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also eery
as in creepy
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
eerie noises would occasionally come from locked rooms in the castle
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Recent Examples of eerie
The camerawork, by Willie Nel, uses horror-movie tropes to keep us on edge: stalkerish POVs framed by binoculars, eerie tracking shots that pad around like a spy.
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Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
The Severance and Orange Is the New Black star plays the hiding-in-plain-sight serial killer in Peacock’s true-crime series launching this fall, and Chernus makes a brief appearance in the role at the end of the eerie teaser trailer released Tuesday (below).
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
The Shining is now considered by most cinephiles to be one of the eeriest and effective horror movies ever made.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 2 July 2025
Eisenberg completed an eerie song praising West Elm as an oracular realm, then asked Scardino to write a short monologue to set it up.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
The Severance and Orange Is the New Black star plays the hiding-in-plain-sight serial killer in Peacock’s true-crime series launching this fall, and Chernus makes a brief appearance in the role at the end of the eerie teaser trailer released Tuesday (below).
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
The Shining is now considered by most cinephiles to be one of the eeriest and effective horror movies ever made.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 2 July 2025
Eisenberg completed an eerie song praising West Elm as an oracular realm, then asked Scardino to write a short monologue to set it up.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eerie
Adjective
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Although Cheol-su and Young-hee may forever be known to the world as giant, creepy animatronic dolls, they’re based on fictional characters found in old Korean language textbooks.—
Regina Kim,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The latest trailer incorporates personal outtakes of Franco and Brie’s love story interspersed with creepy stills from the film.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
7 July 2025
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The Rockies’ next head of baseball operations needs to come from outside their weird little world, but possess a feel for the challenges of building a winner at Coors Field.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
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Despite not being a purveyor of nail products, Selena Gomez has established herself as something of a finger chameleon (Too weird?—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
8 July 2025
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Antarctica's crimson waterfall is truly haunting, and very few people ever see it in person.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
6 July 2025
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For five seasons, creator and host Rod Serling guided unsuspecting viewers through some of the most haunting, macabre stories ever told.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
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“Eerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eerie. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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